Document: Arraignment of Women
Author: Swetham
Place and Time: 1615 Western Europe
Prior Knowledge: The Renaissance in the 1500’s already took place
New ideas over family structure and where women stood in the world
Scientific Revolution taking place
A time with Isaac Newton, Galileo, John Locke, and Copernicus thinkers
Audience: To men in Western Europe
To women who are wanting a better social status
Reason: Men are superior over women
Anti-woman views
Don’t let women gain a better position in society
Main Idea: All women are temptresses
Women can’t live without men
Men can’t live without women
Women don’t do good things
Significance: The significance of this document at the time was to persuade men to not allow the rise of women’s status in the 1600’s in Western Europe.
Document: Women’s Sharp Revenge
Author: Tattle-Well and Hit-Him-Home
Place and Time: 1640 Western Europe
Prior Knowledge: The Renaissance in the 1500’s already took place
New ideas over family structure and where women stood in the world
Scientific Revolution taking place
A time with Isaac Newton, Galileo, John Locke, and Copernicus thinkers
Audience: Women of Western Europe
Some men as well who supported the change of women’s status
Reason: To change the way women are treated and their lowly status in the world
Women have more good qualities than men do
Women have less bad qualities than men do
Main Idea: Women are equal, and possibly more than equal, to men
Equal rights for both men and women
Significance: The significance of this document at the time was to get women to start questioning why the men get an education and provide for their families out in the world while women stay behind at home to sew.
Author: Swetham
Place and Time: 1615 Western Europe
Prior Knowledge: The Renaissance in the 1500’s already took place
New ideas over family structure and where women stood in the world
Scientific Revolution taking place
A time with Isaac Newton, Galileo, John Locke, and Copernicus thinkers
Audience: To men in Western Europe
To women who are wanting a better social status
Reason: Men are superior over women
Anti-woman views
Don’t let women gain a better position in society
Main Idea: All women are temptresses
Women can’t live without men
Men can’t live without women
Women don’t do good things
Significance: The significance of this document at the time was to persuade men to not allow the rise of women’s status in the 1600’s in Western Europe.
Document: Women’s Sharp Revenge
Author: Tattle-Well and Hit-Him-Home
Place and Time: 1640 Western Europe
Prior Knowledge: The Renaissance in the 1500’s already took place
New ideas over family structure and where women stood in the world
Scientific Revolution taking place
A time with Isaac Newton, Galileo, John Locke, and Copernicus thinkers
Audience: Women of Western Europe
Some men as well who supported the change of women’s status
Reason: To change the way women are treated and their lowly status in the world
Women have more good qualities than men do
Women have less bad qualities than men do
Main Idea: Women are equal, and possibly more than equal, to men
Equal rights for both men and women
Significance: The significance of this document at the time was to get women to start questioning why the men get an education and provide for their families out in the world while women stay behind at home to sew.
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